GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impuissance | weakness |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| contrite | feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| hirsute | hairy |